Analysis
HTS 8205.20.60 covers with heads over 1.5 kg each under heading 8205 (handtools (including glass cutters) not elsewhere specified or included; blow torches and…).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 7.2%. Compared with 8205.59.10 (pipe tools, and parts thereof), which pays 7.2%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 7.2 percentage points.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 41% of the 95 tariff lines in chapter 82, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Free here means free of the base duty only: origin-specific Chapter 99 duties such as Section 301 can still be owed.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 20% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 20% duty.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 332216 (Saw Blade and Handtool Manufacturing), an industry of 775 US establishments employing 25,058 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 8205.10.00 | Drilling, threading or tapping tools, and parts thereof | 6.2% |
| 8205.20.30 | With heads not over 1.5 kg each | 6.2% |
| 8205.30.30 | With cutting part containing by weight over 0.2 percent of chromium, molybdenum, or tungsten or over 0.1 percent of vanadium | 5.7% |
| 8205.30.60 | Planes, chisels, gouges and similar cutting tools for working wood, and parts thereof: other (including parts) | 5% |
| 8205.40.00 | Screwdrivers, and parts thereof | 6.2% |
| 8205.51.15 | Carving and butcher steels, with or without handles | Free |
| 8205.51.30 | Of iron or steel: other (including parts) | 3.7% |
| 8205.51.45 | Household tools, and parts thereof: of copper | Free |
| 8205.51.60 | Household tools, and parts thereof: of aluminum | 2.2¢/kg + 5% |
| 8205.51.75 | Household tools, and parts thereof: other | 3.7% |
| 8205.59.10 | Pipe tools, and parts thereof | 7.2% |
| 8205.59.20 | Powder-actuated handtools, and parts thereof | Free |
| 8205.59.30 | Crowbars, track tools and wedges, and parts thereof | Free |
| 8205.59.45 | Of iron or steel: caulking guns | 5.3% |
| 8205.59.55 | Of iron or steel: other | 5.3% |
| 8205.59.60 | Other: of copper | Free |
| 8205.59.70 | Other: of aluminum | 1.5¢/kg + 3.5% |
| 8205.59.80 | Other: other | 3.7% |
| 8205.60.00 | Blow torches and similar self-contained torches, and parts thereof | 2.9% |
| 8205.70.00 | Vises, clamps and the like, and parts thereof | 5% |
| 8205.90.10 | Anvils; portable forges; hand- or pedal-operated grinding wheels with frameworks; base metal parts thereof | Free |
| 8205.90.60 | Sets of articles of two or more of the foregoing subheadings | The rate of duty applicable to that article in the set subject to the highest rate of duty |